Artist Info

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Artist Sung Neung-kyung is a representative figure of the Korean avant-garde and experimental art movements, constantly expanding the boundaries of art through performance and conceptual art.

Her work transforms everyday objects and actions through an unfamiliar perspective, challenging fixed notions between art and reality. In particular, she deconstructs existing order and explores the possibilities of new sensations at the points where language and image, and body and action, collide.

Utilizing diverse media such as newspapers, photographs, text, and bodily acts, her work focuses on the process and the shift in perception itself rather than the result, creating a new opening for thought for the viewer.

Sung Neung-kyung’s work does not remain merely a visual outcome but embodies fundamental questions about how art exists and functions. Her artistic world, where humor and experimental spirit coexist, demonstrates contemporary tension and free energy even today.

Drawing by your bottom

Digital Image

2021

Biography

Major Exhibitions

2025
Whoosh! ‘WHISSSH~ WHOOSH!’ (Baik Art, Seoul)

Art Bank 20th Anniversary Special Exhibition ‘The Returned Future: Manifestation of Form and Thought’ (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Cheongju)

2024

Sung Neung Kyung at dosa 818 (Flyingfishprojects and Baik Art, LA)

Off the beaten track: The artistic meanderings of Sung Neung Kyung (Lehmann Maupin, New York)

Sung Neung Kyung’s Conceptual Art ‘Yesterday, Now, Now’ (Gallery Shilla, Daegu)

2023

Sung Neung Kyung’s Ruined Artistic Journey (Hyundai Gallery Old Building, Seoul)

Mass of Concept: Sung Neung Kyung’s Artistic Journey (Zaha Museum, Seoul)

Seemingly Nothing… Sung Neung Kyung’s Artistic Journey (Baik Art, Seoul)

2001 Korean Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition ‘Art is the Shadow of Delusion’ – Sung Neung Kyung (Arts Council Korea Art Center (current ARKO). seoul)